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In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the … literature. In all cases we find that immigration had a positive effect on the wage of less educated natives. It also increased …
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Using data from the United States spanning the period between 1970 and 2017, we analyze the economic assimilation of subsequent arrival cohorts of Mexican and Central American immigrants, the more economically disadvantaged group of immigrants. We compare their wage and employment probability to...
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We empirically analyze the impact of immigration to the U.S. on the share of votes to the Republicans and Democrats … Survey merged with election data – and addresses the endogeneity of immigrant flows using a novel set of instruments. On … average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican vote share …
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find a positive effect of immigration on wages of natives and on specialization of natives in complex occupations, that is …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given … potentially serious omitted-variables bias, questioning the validity of existing estimates of the effects of trade and immigration … on income. This paper provides estimates of the effects of trade and immigration on income in a unified framework. We …
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received by nationalistic parties in Europe. These results are relevant to the ongoing debate among academics over the …
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The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has been relatively neglected. Our paper aims at revisiting labor market convergence between immigrants and natives and examining this under-studied dimension in a comprehensive study...
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … useful tool to evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …
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